Snap-hook for fastening reins.



No. (53u38. l Patented Nov. 14, v|899.

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SNAP HOOK FOR FASTENHG RElNSl :Application filed June 25, 1897.) .(Nn Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELMER A. LYNNE, OF WESTBROOK, CONNECTICUT.

SNAP-HOOKY FOR FAOSTENING REINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,138, dated November 14, 1.899. Application led .Tune 25, 1897. Serial No. 642,251. (No model.)

To all whom t may con/cern.'

Be it known that I, ELMER A. LYNNE, of Westbrook, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Snap-Hooks,

for Fastening Reins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to snap-hooks.

The object of the invention is to provide a snap-hook coupler which can be`ea`sily and quickly operated in cold weather with gloves or mittens.

The invention is especially applicable to the coupling or joining of the ends of driving-reins, where it is important that the reins be easily and quickly connected together.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a plan of the invention, showing the lat side of reins with my snap-hook attachment for coupling the same. Fig. 2 is a section at right angles to the plane of Fig. 1, the snap-hook being engaged with an eye. Fig. 3 is also a central section showing the spring-bolt pressed backward in the process of coupling or uncoupling.

1 l are the extremities or ends of ordinary larged shank 5, having a swiveled connection with a loop or finding 3. The large shank is provided with a central or axial recess in line with the point or end of the hook 4, and within the recess is arranged a reciprocating bolt or keeper 6, held in operative position by means ot' a spring 7. The shank opposite the end of the hook is curved and concaved, as shown in the drawings, to provide a narrow throat through which a loop, as 2, may be readily passed when brought into axial line with the bolt 6.

It will be observed that by reason of the construction of the throat with a curve and a concave the loop or ring can only be inserted and removed when arranged in line with the bolt 6 and the point of the hook.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A snap-hook having an enlarged tubular shank, a concaved and curved throat or passage leading past the end of the hook, and a spring bolt or keeper arranged in the tubular shank centrally of the concaved curved pas sage and inline with the end of the hook, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this speciication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELMER A. LYN N E.

Witnesses:

JAMES PHELPs, LYDIA A. PHELPS. 

